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What's your 15-24mos old toddler's schedule like?

Here's my son's schedule who will be 15mos on the 12th (I'm definitely ALL about schedules haha):

9:30-10AM: Wake up!
10AM: Have 6oz of whole milk then some sort of breakfast food (waffles, eggs, yogurt, oatmeal).
11AM: Snack (a couple whole wheat crackers, or some cheerios) with a couple ounces of water.
12-12:30PM: Nap time
2-2:30PM: 6oz cup again with some sort of fruit or grilled cheese.
3-3:30PM: Snack (half piece of whole wheat bread or piece of cheese) & a couple ounces of water.
4-4:30PM: Nap time
6-6:30PM: 6oz cup again with whatever veggies I can get him to eat haha
7-7:30PM: Snack (a few pieces of fruit or some of whatever I'm having) & a couple ounces of water.
9PM: Bedtime! :]

I try to give him a bath every day but a lot of the time it ends up every other day. He's so cute as far as reading though, he's gotten to the point where he brings me his favorite books for me to read. :]

we dont really have a "schedule" but a routine. my sn is 22 months old. he isnt always up the same time, but it's usually around 830 lately. he likes to watch cartoons while I make breakfast, and depending on any errands or playgroups during the morning, he usually gets lunch before his nap, which is normally around 2 or so hours long. when he's up he gets lunch (if he didnt make it to lunchtime) or a snack. we play the remainder of the day and I do some house upkeep, SO arrives home anytime between 430-6, one of us makes dinner, DS gets a bath and story/lulluby around 8 and he's in bed by 8:30'ish

The condensed version of our schedule: wake up, eat, run until it's time to eat again, eat, run until we fall down for nap time, nap, eat, run until it's time to eat again, eat, run until we fall down for bedtime.
The other version:
7am:wake up, eat breakfast
10am: cup of juice and some yogurt
noon: lunch
1pm-2pm: nap and another snack when he gets up
4pm: couple pieces of cheese or fruit or something
6pm: dinner
8:30: bed time.

He's a really good eater so getting in all the veggies is never an issue. there's no real schedule but those are the times things usually happen and then it's pretty much free play during the day as we just go from thing to thing as he feels like it. Reading is a major high point in his day right now. This week there are about three books he has to read repeatedly for about an hour or so. He's 95th percentile in height and about 50th in weight. Always has been since day one. :)

My son is 19 months, 27 lbs, 35 inches
This is an average day... we aren't really on a schedule... but he wakes up like clock work at 7 and everything kind of falls into place... if he gets up earlier or later for some reason everything is adjusted accordingly

7:00 Wake up
7:30-8:00 have breakfast... usually oatmeal or something
8-11 Play time or we we might run errands
11:00 lunch time
12:00 Nap time
1:30 wake up and we get ready to go
2:30: I drop him off at daycare and I go to work
4:00 he has snack at daycare
5:00 Daddy picks him up
5:15 Play with daddy or snuggle or whatever they do
6:00-7:00 they eat supper
8:00 bath time, stories, and songs
8:30-9:00 bed time

My son is 29 months now, but when he turned 2 his schedule went like this:

8am: wake up, eat breakfast, usually a fruit and a grain (a banana and cereal is what he wanted 9 times out of 10!) plus water
11am: lunch, usually a protein, a veggie, and a fruit plus milk
12pm: nap
2pm: up
3pm: snack something light, changed it up, maybe fruit, maybe crackers, maybe yogurt
6pm: supper...I try to have a meat, a starch, and a veggie, plus water
7pm: bed

He drank water all day long as he pleased, too. He seems to have become more of a juice fan since turning 2 for some reason, but we still water it down with half water. :)

Oh, and he was always around 50% for weight and 95% for height. We try to feed him relatively healthily, though we certainly aren't above feeding him pizza or hot dogs sometimes, and we are a little funny about him drinking anything besides water, watered-down juice, and milk, but he goes to his bio-dad's one night a week to live on Mt. Dew, Pop Tarts, and Happy Meals.